Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Mali and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Faust to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Howard Jones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Hot Snakes,
X-101,
B.T. Express,
Stereo Dub,
Easy Going,
Fatback Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Matthew Halsall,
Metal Thangz,
Gong,
Joe Finger,
Country Teasers,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Gap Band,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Underground Resistance,
The American Breed,
Piero Umiliani,
The Velvet Underground,
Letta Mbulu,
Marine Girls,
Ronan,
Warren Ellis,
Kenny Larkin,
The Index,
These Immortal Souls,
Lalann,
John Foxx,
Maurizio,
Outsiders,
Basic Channel,
Albert Ayler,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Standells,
Gastr Del Sol,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
FM Einheit,
Donald Byrd,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Guru Guru,
Babytalk,
Magma,
Johnny Clarke,
Zapp,
Lalo Schifrin,
Chrome,
T.S.O.L.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scratch Acid,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Music Machine,
Terrestrial Tones,
Crooked Eye,
Unrelated Segments,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.